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WorksheetsMusic and the Brain
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
What do we call people who study how the brain works?
Neuroscientists
Biologists
Philosophers
Physicist
What did neuroscientists notice when participants listened to music?
Right side
Left side
Multiple areas of the brain lit up
Only the hippocampus
What two instruments do neuroscientists use to view activity in the brain?
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Electrocardiogram
Positron Emission Tomography
Ultrasound
In the video, what metaphor is used to describe activity in the brain while listening to music?
Backyard fireworks
Pod of Dolphins
Singing birds
Colorado vs Florida
What metaphor was used to describe what happens in the brain when people engage in making music? The backyard fireworks become a __________.
Game of golf
March Madness
Tennis Match
Jubilee
Playing music is the brain's equivalent to a ______________________.
Bicep workout
Abductor digiti minimi brevis workout
Full-body workout
Walk
Neuroscientists saw multiple areas of the brain light up, processing different information at the same time in intricate, interrelated, and astonishingly fast sequences. T/F
True
False
What three areas of the brain are especially engaged while making music?
visual
auditory
motor
olfactory
What kind of practice strengthens brain functions?
structured
disciplined
random
haphazard
Can we apply the strengths we gain practicing for one skill to other skills?
Absolutely
Not at all
Maybe
Some of the differences in listening to music and making music are
Making music involves fine motor skills which connect both hemispheres of the brain
Making music combines the linguistic and mathematical precision of the left hemisphere with the novel, creative content of the right hemisphere
Making music increases the volume and activity of the corpus callosum
All of the above
What is the bridge between the two hemispheres of the brain?
Hippocampus
Cerebral Cortex
Corpus callosum
None of the above
How does a strong corpus callosum help our thinking?
It doesn't help
Allows messages to get across the brain in faster and more diverse routes
Executive function involves a category of interrelated tasks including ________________, _________________, and ______________.
planning
strategizing
attention to detail
none of the above
How do enhanced memory systems of musicians create, store, and retrieve memories more quickly and efficiently than others?
they seem to give each memory multiple tags which creates multiple links
they do not link new memories
the tags they create are emotional, conceptual, auditory, and textual
they do not tag new memories
